France's Presidential Candidate Actually Told His 64-Year Old Wife He Would Marry Her At Just 17

Brigitte Trogneux, now 64, was once the drama coach of centre-Left candidate Emmanuel Macron, 39, who exit polls predict will be the next France president.

Miss Trogneux last night stood by her husband waving and grinning broadly after he won first place ahead of National Front leader Marine Le Pen in the first round of the country's presidential elections.

Macron and Trogneux first met when he was 15 and he later made a startling promise to his teacher.

'At the age of 17, Emmanuel said to me, "Whatever you do, I will marry you!",' Miss Trogneux told Paris Match magazine last year. The relationship started after Mr Macron acted in Miss Trogneux's theatre pieces when he was aged just 18 at a private Jesuit school in Amiens, northern France.